Anti-gun Paypal hates the military

I've known for awhile now that Paypal is anti-gun, but I had no idea that they would let their bigotry hurt our nations Heroes.

Go over to The Smallest Minority and check out what the big deal is. There is even a phone number posted so that you can conveniently shame Paypal for their stupidity.

Someone should pull their firearm registration!

A 44-year-old District man and his 25-year-old nephew from Clinton have been accused of robbing four banks in the D.C. suburbs over the past year, along with a Dunkin Donuts location.

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Proctor said Waddle participated in all six, brandishing the gun at the donut shop and driving the getaway car at the bank robberies.

Isn't that why DC residents have to register their guns? So that when they kill people or rob banks that the police know where to find them and take away the gun?

I thought it was as simple as that.

Wierd.

The Bitter Rifleman

I tried to take the .308 out again yesterday afternoon and I ended the day in seething bitterness. To those who know me personally that wouldn't be surprising. Bitterness is a hallmark of my character.

I have built the most high performance rifle I can financially muster, and I didn't do it to be imprisoned by one hundred yards. To me, one hundred yards is for sighting in, muzzle loaders, and for people who only hunt with the 'thuty thuty.'

I want more.

There was a time when I could take my rifle to any one of numerous fields and power lines and shoot as far as the eye can see, but those days have long past. Those fields and such have been leveled to make way for subdivisions to house all of Virginia's illegals and to make room for the hippies that can no longer find a place to live in Fairfax. Out of those on my side of the family, I'm the only one with a yard the size of a snowflake and the only one with the motivation and initiative to make a long straight line with which to direct high velocity pieces of copper. It burns me to have the will but not the space.

You would think that with the passion for shooting that everyone in my family possesses, that we would have our shit together and have kick ass facilities. You would think.

These days I get about two hours a month to do what I want to do, and I hate to piss away the first hour soaked in sweat while swinging a machete or pulling trees with my truck and a chain. I want to be able to shoot.

Such is how things went yesterday. I'm using the Optimal Charge Weight technique to find the ideal load for my .308, and I blew it because things went Tango Uniform during my shoot. I had to pack it up early.

I was standing in the mud in the middle of the woods; my chrono was not taking readings like it's supposed to; my groups sucked; and when one of my rounds clipped one of the chrono stakes because it was slowly turning during the shoot, I threw in the towel. Really it didn't matter; I didn't have the time to finish anyways.

I think it's time to find a pay-to-shoot range that offers some distance. At least until I can sell my house and move the hell out of Virginia. That's not likely to be any time soon; I bought my house about eight months before the housing market took a shit on us all, so I lost quite a bit on it. Now is the time to start looking though, and my requirements are to be able to walk outside on my back porch and shoot a thousand yards or better without pansy ass rich people from the state's most ritzy neighborhood calling the Sheriff's Department on me. Oh, and I don't want to pay a quarter of a million dollars for an acre like here in Virginia, and it has to be a gun friendly state.

Any ideas?

When you can't ban them with law. . .

. . . why not use a treaty?

Bolton spoke at the U.N., declaring that the United States would never join a treaty that violated the Second Amendment rights of American citizens. That treaty never died, however. Anti-gun forces at the U.N. continue to push for adoption of this global gun ban treaty and for the U.S. to join it.

A Federal Bill has to go to the House floor for a vote, but a treaty only goes to the Senate. And again, the government doesn't need to ban guns to ban guns. There are so many other ways.

The gun rights community is really at its strongest right now, but I'm afraid that most folks are only paying attention to run-of-the-mill legislation that would threaten their rights, and not every angle of approach.

You have to protect your flanks too.

And once a Marine, always a Marine

Semper Fi sir!

Last summer, Frank DeAngelis, a New Jersey resident and World War II veteran constructed a simple but elegant shadow box for the family of Marine Sgt. Joshua Frazier. The box, given to Frazier's mother, Shelia Cutshall of Spotsylvania County, contained the medals, patches and shooting awards the 24-year-old Marine earned before he died in Iraq in 2007.

DeAngelis, 83, is making one for every Marine killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, as long as he is able.

This story is definitely worth your time. Men like this a few and far between these days.

My Bambi slayer

I've been able to get out and shoot my .308 some since I finished building it, and I'm getting pretty close to finding the load that I'm going to use on Bambi this year. Some might find it interesting that I built that rifle specifically to hunt with, and threw in some long range performance stuff for good measure.

I know some consider it taboo to even own such a deadly beast. I've already been told by naysayers that "people don't use those rifles to hunt with." I do; and I even sold my Winchester Model 70 - the rifleman's rifle - in .300 Winchester Magnum to help finance the .308. I've been told that "what do you need forty rounds for to kill a deer?" Well boy genius, Virginia, like most states, limits rifle capacity for hunting to five in the gun. Fortunately I was able to purchase four round magazines for that purpose.

Load development can be a tedious task, and my quest for accuracy for the hunting load is almost over. I've been posting over at Practical Riflery Forums about the last two shoots. For a complete rundown go on over there and check it out.

So screwed

Troxler, who is scheduled to be in Spotsylvania General District Court Monday on another driving without a license charge, was placed in the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond.

The other suspect was identified as 25-year-old Randall Allen Lane of Stafford.

He is charged with the same offenses except for the driving charge.

Lane was free on bond as the result of a June 4 arrest in Spotsylvania on a burglary charge, court records show. He was supposed to appear in court next month to name an attorney.

One would think that in light of pending charges, these two would have postponed the armed robbery of Papa John's pizza for another day. Fortunately they went ahead with their plan and got caught, and I suspect that Spotsylvania residents won't have to worry about them for fifteen or twenty years.

I have to laugh at their use of a BB gun for the robbery. If they didn't have charges pending, their sentence would likely be less. I don't think the judge is going to have much sympathy though.

Civilians with machine guns!!!!!!

Defending their homes from the Taliban in Pakistan.

Pictures are worth a thousand words.

I notice that even Pakistani youth are packing AKs. And I can't help but smile seeing a pistol that was built in the 19th century, with every square inch of bluing worn off, still being used to fend off the bad guys.

Good stuff!

Marksmanship

Thank the Lord that this gunman didn't have any.

No mention of whether the gun was registered with the Maryland State Police (sarcasm people).

Wow. I'm at a loss for words.

MOBILE, Ala. — Police in Mobile, Ala., used pepper spray and a Taser on a deaf, mentally disabled who they said wouldn't leave a store's bathroom.

I still can't understand why the Taser is considered a compliance tool. I thought it was designed to be used in incidences where deadly force would be justified, but the Taser just may save the day without bloodshed. And to think that now Taser offers a repeater.

And what possible harm could come from someone taking too much time in the bathroom?

Wait, don't answer that. Dumb question.

Down with the sickness: The Reckoning

So yesterday I woke up and didn't feel 100%, but I didn't feel like I needed to call into work or anything. As I was leaving the house, I felt that familiar feeling in the right side of my back where my kidney is and knew that I had another kidney stone to pass.

No big deal to me; I pass them fairly frequently, but they're small ones. I got hung up on one a few years back that put me in the hospital in a level of pain that I just can't describe, and I dreaded the day that I had to go through that again.

A few miles into my commute to work I realized that that day had come, and that the pain was coming on faster than last time. I was too far from the hospital to drive myself, so I had to make it home. By the time I turned around I was having trouble driving my truck.

I made it home, and my wife took me to the local hospital. The pain was beyond agonizing; it was more like crippling. That's the only way I can describe it. Sweat mixed with tears, snot, and spit as I writhed in pain on a freaking hospital bed waiting for pain meds that don't work. I could never be an addict because prescribed pain medication, even the strong IV types, have zero effect on me. It's my curse.

Sometimes some obscure medicine will work on me, which is what happened when they gave me some type of IV anti-inflammatory. The pain finally went away. Now my filtration system is all jacked up, and the worst part of it is that the stone has only made it to my bladder; it still has one final journey to go!

Yeah, ow!

There's no telling when that will go down. Last time it took two weeks. Good times.

Wish me luck!

Bloodless self defense in Stafford, VA

An 89 year old man ran off four home intruders without firing a shot, even after they knocked him to the ground.

Major David Decatur of the Stafford County Sheriff's Department noted that the man would have been acting lawfully if he had shot them all dead; and one neighbor said that she would have shot him. I found it funny that she started to say that she had a concealed carry permit - at least it sounded like it to me - and had no remorse for those guys.

I wonder why the scumbags didn't just simply take that man's weapon away and use it against him. They had to have been thoroughly trained in victim weapon takeaway when they attended scumbag school.

Closing the mental health loophole

Remember that executive order that VA Governor Tim Kaine signed that would make it freakin impossible for those who have been deemed mentally ill from buying a firearm, supposedly to stop scumbags like Cho?

Well, how is it supposed to work when the mental health records have been missing for over two years because they've been sitting on someone's desk in their home?

Missing mental health records for the Virginia Tech gunman have been discovered in the home of the former director of the university's counseling center, according to the Associated Press.

Keep making us safe!

Scumbag NBC4 writer unglued over GOP candidate

Crabill recently attended one of those "Tea Parties," where conservatives like to meet up and complain about Barack Obama for an afternoon. In an address to fellow rally-mates, Crabill stressed the importance of this November's state elections in stopping Marxism. But hey, if it doesn't work, she suggested, we can always have a violent revolution to overthrow the government -- it's what the Founding Fathers wanted all along!

Just so you know, writer Jim Newell is a delusional moonbat that gets overwhelming criticism in comments on just about every single childish post that he writes. He should be embarrassed, but yet he keeps on. This post is no different.

He links to a video of Catherine Crabill talking in the sort of strong language that was the standard when this country was founded, and tries to paint her as a kook - which she may well be for all I know. I didn't see anything to write home to mamma about; the left has been known to use tough talk to whip up a frenzy too, like over their hatred for the last president. Let's not forget.

People attend rallies to talk shit and get excited; it's the whole purpose. Newell apparently thinks that the Tea Parties are places for folks to sit around and talk quietly amongst themselves while they paint each others faces, get high, have sex, and talk about the peaceful type of revolution.

He then goes on to say something about the 2nd Amendment being about lobsters, grizzly bears, and the French. I'm a little confused there. I posted a comment to hopefully set him straight on the matter; and if you bother to click on the piece I suggest that you leave him a loving note as well. Oh, and no need to be gentle with him, here are some examples of the comments that he's used to receiving:

Hey Newell, does Mommy still tuck you in everynight? Got the nightlight on so the monsters can't get you? You are a putz !! - JB

Jim Newell is a friggin' idiot. What a piece of garbage. - John Boy

I have to agree with her, our forefathers were not talking about hunting game with the 2nd amendment. I hope your the first one she shoots jimmy. - thats right

You prove yourself much more ignorant in this article than anything she says....Your piece is more propagandic than anything this woman said. - Jason

It only gets worse from there.

They're getting younger these days

Scumbags, I mean.

A 12-year-old boy was charged with abducting a 20-year-old woman waiting for an elevator at a Woodbridge office building.

Yes, a 12-year-old boy.

He may be man sized, but he is just a kid. Too bad he will find out how small he actually is in a juvenile detention center. I'm sure we will be hearing about him again in the future.

Hoppes has lost me as a customer until further notice

Hey Hoppes, would it kill ya to maybe put your product (#9) in a freakin bottle that doesn't leak all over my range bag every time I go out, making me high when I get into my truck after leaving the bag in the back overnight?

We have technology to send a man to the moon and give a human a new heart; why the hell can't you guys spend the extra nickel and use a leak proof bottle?!?! The technology is there people!

Right now my house stinks because I left my range bag on the counter last night.

Lite blogging

I'll be wrapped up in some stuff for the next couple of days. Blogging will be lite.

Justice with a dose of stupidity

A 16 year old (at the time) wannabe thug who shot five classmates on a bus killing one of them was sentenced to 100 years in prison.

Good.

The victim's dad, a former Chicago cop, commented that Michael Pace should serve every day of the sentence.

Good.

The dad has also become a gun control advocate since Pace went on his shooting spree.

Wait, what?

To give you an idea of what happened, this all went down in Chicago in 2007 when a 15 year old (at the time) boy illegally sold Pace an illegally owned handgun, and Pace illegally took possession of it and set out to illegally kill another gang member, but instead illegally shot up a bus and five people, murdering one (illegally). All of this in a city that has banned handgun ownership, and in a state that has made it illegal to carry a handgun, as well as the whole minor in possession thing.

So rightfully aggrieved dad wants to make handgun ownership more illegal. Awesome. Like throwing a bucket of water on a ship fire.

I don't understand people sometimes.

Oh, if we could only ban ban the guns!

Then convicted murderers couldn't buy a handgun after they're paroled and illegally sell it to someone under age who would then use it to murder someone and then commit suicide.

It's cool how common sense is so. . . . common!

I didn't really get into the weeds on the murder of Steve McNair because it wasn't all that interesting, but I find it odd that a man convicted of second degree murder for killing someone during an armed robbery - one of three I might add - would be walking the streets in the first place. Um. . . why don't we put murderers away for ever?

Adrian Gilliam was convicted in 1993, and he looks not much older than me. Is ten years all some innocent life is worth? It looks as though "He may face up to 10 years in prison for selling Kazemi the gun."

What a joke.

Rev. Michael Pfleger "very sad by this reality"

The nasty Reverend, with tears in his eyes, had to face the cameras last night regarding the shooting of two teens at an anti-violence event at his "Gun Free" "Place of Safety."

Well, it's not a very effective anti-violence event if people get shot there, now is it? Feeling a little violated? I bet it doesn't occur to him about how violated thousands of Chicagoans feel when they're sacred places are invaded and shot up, and they have no way to resist because of silly do-nothing measures that the Reverend himself has helped push.

Boo-friggin-hoo. Own it sir!

Funny how he gets his face on CNN to harp about banning those blasted assault thingies, even though it appears that handguns were used; although he says he's not against the second amendment.

Right.

So you're not against ownership of firearms, but you want to use this shooting as a tool to take away an entire genre of firearms owned by millions of Americans that are rarely used in crimes, and not at all used in this crime? What kind of logic to priests get to smoke these days?

Maybe he should instead ask Washington to push a law banning the shooting of teens within five miles of churches or schools. Common sense, no? But don't worry, the good father has put out a reward for the capture of the gunman, and that cop outside the church sending text messages is going to catch him any minute now.

I wonder if Rev. Pfleger will call on the community to "snuff him out?"